Importance of Resolving Fungal Nomenclature: the Case of Multiple Pathogenic Species in the <italic toggle="yes">Cryptococcus</italic> Genus

Importance of Resolving Fungal Nomenclature: the Case of Multiple Pathogenic Species in the <italic toggle="yes">Cryptococcus</italic> Genus

ABSTRACT Cryptococcosis is a major fungal disease caused by members of the Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans species complexes. After more than 15 years of molecular genetic and phenotypic studies and much debate, a proposal for a taxonomic revision was made. The two varieties within C...

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Main Authors: Ferry Hagen, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic, Hamid Badali, Sebastien Bertout, R. Blake Billmyre, M. Rosa Bragulat, F. Javier Cabañes, Mauricio Carbia, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Sudha Chaturvedi, Vishnu Chaturvedi, Min Chen, Anuradha Chowdhary, Maria-Francisca Colom, Oliver A. Cornely, Pedro W. Crous, Maria S. Cuétara, Mara R. Diaz, Ana Espinel-Ingroff, Hamed Fakhim, Rama Falk, Wenjie Fang, Patricia F. Herkert, Consuelo Ferrer Rodríguez, James A. Fraser, Josepa Gené, Josep Guarro, Alexander Idnurm, María-Teresa Illnait-Zaragozi, Ziauddin Khan, Kantarawee Khayhan, Anna Kolecka, Cletus P. Kurtzman, Katrien Lagrou, Wanqing Liao, Carlos Linares, Jacques F. Meis, Kirsten Nielsen, Tinashe K. Nyazika, Weihua Pan, Marina Pekmezovic, Itzhack Polacheck, Brunella Posteraro, Flavio de Queiroz Telles, Orazio Romeo, Manuel Sánchez, Ana Sampaio, Maurizio Sanguinetti, Pojana Sriburee, Takashi Sugita, Saad J. Taj-Aldeen, Masako Takashima, John W. Taylor, Bart Theelen, Rok Tomazin, Paul E. Verweij, Retno Wahyuningsih, Ping Wang, Teun Boekhout
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017-08-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
Cryptococcus
cryptococcosis
diagnostics
species delimitation
taxonomy
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00238-17

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